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Blog 2: Questions for Will Richardson
Question 1
In chapter 3 of your book, you talk about blogging with your students. While I think this could be a very useful tool for things like homework and group projects, I did get a little nervous when thinking about using it for corresponding with students and allowing students to personalize their blogs.
When I was first hired at my school district, I was told that I should never use email to correspond with students or parents about how they or their child was doing because it was a legal document that could come back to bite me. I understand that the primary subject matter of the blog would be assignment related, but if a student isn't doing well and feels they weren't graded properly, couldn't they use their teacher's responses against him or her? Do you think there is any reason for a teacher to be concerned with using a blog to communicate with students?
I would also be concerned with allowing them to personalize their blogs with pictures and personal posts. I think if the blog is for school business it should steer clear of any personal material. Something a student posts could be viewed by them as innocent or no big deal, but it could make someone else (another student or a teacher) viewing it uncomfortable. Just wondering what your thoughts on this are.
Question 2
In chapter 8 of your book, you talk about live streaming in the classroom. This is something that I have brought up with some of my supervisors over the past few years. Before I started teaching I worked for ABC News in their digital news division. There we were responsible for producing original online only content as well as re-packaging other ABC News material for video on demand clips. But another aspect of our programming was to look in on live webcams around the world.
At my high school we broadcast the daily morning announcements each day, and I think it would be fantastic if in addition to being seen on the televisions in the classrooms and the on the local town access channel, we could also be seen on the web. My question is that since I am dealing with 16, 17 and 18 year-olds, what security measures do you think would need to be put in place to ensure that we don't broadcast something inappropriate that gets us in trouble? The kids in the news classes are generally really good kids, but they're still kids.
In chapter 3 of your book, you talk about blogging with your students. While I think this could be a very useful tool for things like homework and group projects, I did get a little nervous when thinking about using it for corresponding with students and allowing students to personalize their blogs.
When I was first hired at my school district, I was told that I should never use email to correspond with students or parents about how they or their child was doing because it was a legal document that could come back to bite me. I understand that the primary subject matter of the blog would be assignment related, but if a student isn't doing well and feels they weren't graded properly, couldn't they use their teacher's responses against him or her? Do you think there is any reason for a teacher to be concerned with using a blog to communicate with students?
I would also be concerned with allowing them to personalize their blogs with pictures and personal posts. I think if the blog is for school business it should steer clear of any personal material. Something a student posts could be viewed by them as innocent or no big deal, but it could make someone else (another student or a teacher) viewing it uncomfortable. Just wondering what your thoughts on this are.
Question 2
In chapter 8 of your book, you talk about live streaming in the classroom. This is something that I have brought up with some of my supervisors over the past few years. Before I started teaching I worked for ABC News in their digital news division. There we were responsible for producing original online only content as well as re-packaging other ABC News material for video on demand clips. But another aspect of our programming was to look in on live webcams around the world.
At my high school we broadcast the daily morning announcements each day, and I think it would be fantastic if in addition to being seen on the televisions in the classrooms and the on the local town access channel, we could also be seen on the web. My question is that since I am dealing with 16, 17 and 18 year-olds, what security measures do you think would need to be put in place to ensure that we don't broadcast something inappropriate that gets us in trouble? The kids in the news classes are generally really good kids, but they're still kids.
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